52 Boxes in 52 Weeks:

Improve Your Design

Skills One Box At A Time
 By
Matt Kenney
Taunton Press

What do you get when an accomplished woodworker and senior

editor of Fine Woodworking magazine sets himself the challenge
of designing and building one box a week for a solid year? You
get 52 Boxes in 52 Weeks, a book dedicated to making relatively
simple?yet gracefully elegant?boxes that woodworkers of all
skill levels will be eager to build.

Readers will begin by learning the fundamental box-making

 techniques that are applicable to almost every box in the book:

how to match grain at corners

how to cut miters
how to make tops and bottoms
how to finish a box with shellac, sometimes highlighted with
milk paint ( a major trend in finishing right now).

Following that, Kenney reveals some universal design principles

that can be used as guidance as readers develop their own
design aesthetic. And then, of course, the book transitions to the 52
boxes themselves.

Taunton Press

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